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The Creation of the Media - Political Origins of Modern Communications (Paperback, New)
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The Creation of the Media - Political Origins of Modern Communications (Paperback, New)
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America's leading role in today's information revolution may seem
simply to reflect its position as the world's dominant economy and
most powerful state. But by the early nineteenth century, when the
United States was neither a world power nor a primary center of
scientific discovery, it was already a leader in communications-in
postal service and newspaper publishing, then in development of the
telegraph and telephone networks, later in the whole repertoire of
mass communications.In this wide-ranging social history of American
media, from the first printing press to the early days of radio,
Paul Starr shows that the creation of modern communications was as
much the result of political choices as of technological invention.
With his original historical analysis, Starr examines how the
decisions that led to a state-run post office and private
monopolies on the telegraph and telephone systems affected a
developing society. He illuminates contemporary controversies over
freedom of information by exploring such crucial formative issues
as freedom of the press, intellectual property, privacy, public
access to information, and the shaping of specific technologies and
institutions. America's critical choices in these areas, Starr
argues, affect the long-run path of development in a society and
have had wide social, economic, and even military ramifications.
The Creation of the Media not only tells the history of the media
in a new way; it puts America and its global influence into a new
perspective.
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